turkey moves to ditch the dollar and trade with key partners including russia and china has if you would with washington intensified. chemical giant monsanto is ordered to pay nearly three hundred million dollars to a former groundskeeper in the u.s. over claims that its best selling weed killer causes cancer. and senator in florida is russia hiking the state's voting system ahead of the midterm elections but still forty say that there's no evidence to support that claim. broadcasting live directress it is a must go this is our team thomas certainly glad to have you with us now turkey

isn't ready to abandon the u.s. dollar in its international trade president or to one gave a defiant speech after dollar trumps the latest tariffs sent the turkish currency into a tailspin. we are preparing to use our own national currency with our biggest trading partners such as china russia and ukraine if european countries want to get away from the us dollar then we are ready to set up such a system as well. the turkish leader went on to say that his country needs to look for new friends and allies also appealed to citizens to sell their u.s. dollars and to buy turkish lira to a friend of the currency in the wake of donald trump's punitive trade measures. i have just authorized a doubling of tariffs on steel and alum in you with respect to turkey as their currency the turkish lira slides rapidly downward against our very strong dollar and the mini moon now be twenty percent and still fifty percent our relations with

turkey are not good at this time of the dispute flared up over turkey's refusal to release an american pastor accused of involvement in a failed coup two years ago the countries are also at odds over turkey's purchase of russian missile defense systems and they have clashed over strategies in the war against islamic state in syria and iraq. it former turkish ambassador to the us told us no one stands to gain from an escalation between the two countries but is a trade you know. it's going well i'm certainly heard so turkish interests but a lot of people in the us are also very devout these are steps taken by the truckload ministration hurting the american economy not in the short run certainly in the media many little run i think it is not just a turkish american problem good opinion and also uncomfortable with these steps

being taken by the united states what these steps are telling us is that there is a need for a very deep transformation of the international trading system and these problems are they're pushing that turkey or chicken motor other alternatives and this means mostly getting closer and closer links. a school grounds keeper in the u.s. has successfully sued the chemical giant months santo a california jury ruled that the company's weed killer gave to wayne johnson terminal cancer and ordered monsanto to pay him two hundred eighty nine million dollars in damages and the case it could set a precedent for thousands of other claims against the chemical giant and to do wayne johnson says it's much more than a personal victory. since beginning this case i received a lot of support and a lot of thank you and a lot of prayer and a lot of everything just given to you from a lot of people that i don't even know you know and i'm glad to be here to help but

this situation after i learned about. rick and by the same everything i'm glad to be here to be able to help the cause is way bigger than me. the dispute centered on monsanto's roundup weed killer became gradient is glyphosate which has been produced by monsanto for decades but in two thousand and fifteen the world health organization found that the substance could it be carcinogenic and monsanto insists the product is safe and it has pledged to appeal the court's decision. cancer is a terrible disease but when you asked me about the verdict today for the verdict doesn't change the science. to say it is safe it has been used safely for more than four decades or around the entire world it has been studied with and there are more than eight hundred published peer reviewed studies that demonstrate a safety. jeffrey smith from the institute for responsible technology thinks the

case has dealt a huge blow to months and his reputation the entire process of this trial has forced monsanto to to reveal millions of secret documents and though show clearly that it manipulated the data in their research and they ignored a lot of research that they had see over decades pointing to the fact that roundup and life is a cause cancer so i don't know exactly what they're going to do but i did hear their closing arguments i was in the court and they keep with so many so much distance from a should they have the plaintiff's attorney was able to show oh they just they just read out of proportion of the quote when you play the whole quote it turns out it's exactly the opposite conclusion that nancy it was trying to to drop this is it so we show that they were actually covering up the health dangers even in the courtroom this could be a death blow ultimately. if the science wins and they're not able to manipulate the

process. a democratic senator from florida has accused russia of hacking at the state voter registration system artie's killer mop and comets. bill nelson democratic senator from florida has some alarming news he says that russia has hacked its way into the state's voter registration records they have already penetrated certain counties in the state and they now have free rein to move the boat well time demand the battle stations this is big news except for some reason no one in florida has ever heard about it there are revelle from the florida department of state says that no law enforcement is aware of anything of this nature she says they have received zero information from nelson about his claim and that the f.b.i. the d.h.s.s. and all the florida law enforcement have is observed nothing of the kind the department of homeland security in washington d.c. has now confirmed that they've never heard about it spokesperson sarah sendek says

that it didn't happen to she says we have not heard any news of compromises by russian actors of the election infrastructure bill nelson however says he has obsessional inside information about russian hackers in florida but he can't tell us the details because it's classified he can't tell us which counties have been hacked because it's classified and he can't tell us who told him this you guessed it it's classified nobody in florida has heard of it the department of homeland security has not heard about it but let's take bill nelson at his word let's say the russians actually have hacked into the voting records don't you think that bill ought to be giving whatever information he has to the d.h.s.s. and to florida officials shouldn't he be telling them before he tells the media if they haven't heard about it yet shouldn't they have heard about it now and shouldn't they now take that information and stop the breach why is bill not swing into action getting all the local and federal officials involved well that's

classified so classified that bill is holding all the cards and leaving the rest of america in the dark talk of russia is certainly a headline grabber but this time no one is rushing in to save the unnamed counties in florida and that's what makes it a bit too fishy it sounds a bit like somebody isn't telling the truth and that somebody is a lot closer to miami than the moscow. tens of thousands of protesters flooded the streets of the romanian capital on saturday night for an anti-corruption rally the unrest has been gathering pace over the past few days with people demanding the government's zaid nation was triggered by a new law that reduces the punishment for abuse of office dozens of people have been arrested and hundreds injured in clashes with police. now a troubling story a passenger plane stolen by an apparently suicidal airline employee has crashed

near seattle there were no other people on board video of the plane flying low and erratic way over residential areas was posted online. yes. q four hundred one. over here should never be that low for your. place for the ransom.

there's no indication this was an attack of any kind or a terrorist activity. he was somebody who did something wrong something foolish and may well have paid with his life exactly the circumstances of why this person was flying a small commercial plane with props i have no idea. the plane was an alaska airlines a bomb a dear q four hundred capable of carrying up to seventy six passengers the man who stole it is thought to have died in the crash but nobody has been recovered as of yet and we heard from an aviation expert who believes air companies should have stricter vetting processes. report says that he's an employee so he already has

access. this is what we call an in and inside the risk is being highlighted over the past several years by various also saying include an eye on that. you know with all the security measures that we have around would cost the passengers it has been warned that we need to start looking into employees but unfortunate that's not a very popular subject within the industry people need to realize that look flying an aircraft is not flying it correctly is the heart so i understand that there's a ton of they know that there's astonishment by people how could this guy and on pilot that the aircraft well this is not the first time. in the sixty's we had a u.s. u.s. air force mechanic stealing a u.s. air force transport aircraft and ending up crashing so this is you know this is nothing new to the industry. arab israelis are voicing their anger over a new nation state law that story and much more after a short break you are watching our international.

in a world of big partisan lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bad shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks.

this is our international now thousands of arab israelis have taken to the streets of tel aviv denouncing a controversial new law israeli parliament recently passed a jewish nation state bill crowds chanted it resist apartheid and we are all brothers the new law downgraded arabic from an official language of israel to a language with so called special status the journalist and the right man was at the rally for r.t. . after telling between if the colony at raheen square where an estimated eight

hundred thousand seven streeters have shown up to protest the nation state bill one can hear calls for peaceful relations between jews and arabs one can see lots of signs that are in both hebrew and arabic talking about shame a lot of people have come from all over the country in order to protest here today so much just lieschen states that israel is the nation state of the jewish people with exclusive rights to self-determination supporters see that individual rights continue to be protected under israel we can mock and that the p.l.o. is the will of the majority critics of the nation state legislation which has constitutional weight and checks but it does not include a provision stating that all israelis are equal under the law this is a small affair sickness is citizenship this is a most equality and for dignity that mission is this law is that this kind of minute today will. basically kept the poison the. community wasn't as one as

a second or third of the class citizens and we're here to say that we cannot allow those and we will continue all of a sudden to repeal this law and to achieve a full equality in our homeland i don't think this law we immediately affects people directly it's up of the north that something bad would happen to the media if you think that in the long i think it's a it's a big mistake to start making laws that discriminates against so it's called the initial low it's mean this should be to the jew and me. should be oh so it's really it's unbelievable it's a dictatorship it's going to be apartheid so it's going to be a dictatorship stood on i want to serve this is a democracy and this rally follow several demonstrations one of which included tens of thousands and. members of the jewish community who are arabic speaking israeli

citizens that also serve in the military it's expected that the battle against the nation state law will continue to the supreme court several petitions have been filed against it demonstrators are now marching about a kilometer away to tell of the museum where the rally will continue and our rights men are t. intel of the. company of the center of a long running scandal over polluted water in the u.s. city of flint is lining up to be a private supplier in nigeria or do you go as commentary. nigeria is a country going up against all sorts of hardship poverty corruption the resurgence of terrorist groups but there's an even more fundamental one water about forty percent of the country's population almost seventy million people live without access to clean water for the eighty thousand people who live here there's only one borehole for every sixty households who used to walk miles to fetch water by the

river now we fetch from this bore hole nearby and have time to cook and wash the only uses the water for cooking and the laundry of course it's not we don't drink it so we had to look for tony lake package the water that's all we you know we drink because of how the water systems pipes have decayed now a quarter of all supplies literally seep through the cracks three major companies have been shortlisted to seize control of nigeria's water by privatizing it healthy competition or so when you think but actually it's a choice between the bad the ugly and the really ugly the first company i'm going to talk about is france's veolia it could be known for many things but it's not tori's for just one oversaw the quality of water in the u.s. city of flint michigan which turned into

a major disaster. yes it's fascinating in its own way but in response to veolia rugged off saying some are just too sensitive competing with it is a compass. called been goal which took a shot at facilitating water privatization in bolivia and let me just show you how that turned out. not only did it triple the price of water had been go imposed fees on collecting

rain awards which world was the last straw and the final company i will look at is a dubai based through its largest shareholder it's a link to the infamous decoder access pipeline which was accused of ignoring heritage and putting business before people. well frankly nigerians don't stand to lose much when it comes to water supply it's so scar's activists have called for a state of emergency but with business sharks calling the shots of the country's crisis kind of down the drain entirely so-called investors are ready to go in and then there's money to be. sold it will be one million people two for liberty

government it is just purely business commodification of what are the nationalization of the cycle i build a beautiful little revolt we're all glued to accept it because it will. it will go along with it in. depriving most of what is supposed to be a busy gay humor it is going to be a lot of conflict in these prescript wow what the period in the public what is to go a little more do. devyn little the political will deliver. a crowd of anti-fascists as it now rallying in charlottesville virginia a day before the first anniversary of deadly race riots in the city. it was.

so odd the. white nationalists are expected to hold a demonstration on sunday one year after a unite the right march against the removal of confederate monuments one anti-racism activist was killed during vatten rest a massive security operation is underway in the city which concrete barrier with concrete barriers and metal fences in place. we. are a shocking video has emerged showing the brutal assault of an elderly sikh man in california the local sikh community says it has faced a surge in hate crime since donald trump was elected known a bit of a warning you might find the following video disturbing.

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